The Impacts of globalization on tourism industry in Vietnam Class: Academic writing Group: A3 Instructor: Mr. Nguyen Pham Duy Anh Le Trong Huu (ID: 16608) The Vietnamese-German University The impacts of globalization on tourism industry in Vietnam Introduction According to World Bank, Vietnam is a developing country whose GDP growth has risen about more than 5% since 1990, with not small contribution of tourism industry register at 11.5 billion USD in 2014 and annual growth approximately 6% (Tổng cục Du Lịch, 2014). Go along with the impacts of globalization, it will be a powerful push for tourism industry in particular, for Vietnam in general. This essay will first propose definition of globalization and then discuss in-depth how globalization has affected tourism. Definition The terms “Globalization” can be known as the reinforcement integration in terms of economies, politic, culture and society, and civilizations. Moreover, international relations have been simpli...